“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”

“The issues are too important to be left for the voters.”

“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”

“A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.”

“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality”

“Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem”